In Color – More
On October 14, the website published a YouTube video with a colorized version of the 1943 RKO film Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. Here is another colorized version of an…
New Issue of Blue Light
The autumn issue of Blue Light (Volume 30:2) reached the DESUK members in mid October. It is another very good issue by Gareth Evans. It is dominated by a ten…
Ellington Reflections News
Steven Bowie published a couple of week ago a new post in his amazing blog. He is as regular as a clock! This month he has chosen to talk about…
Ellington In Order Volume 6
It has just become available and has music from January 9 1934 to July 17, 1936 As in Volume 5, a substantial part of the new Ellington In Order are…
Ellington at Santa Monica 1960
On March 2, 1960, Ellington started what was to become a twelwe week engagement at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, where the orchestra performed in the Starlight Lounge. Juan…
More of Duke at the Piano
By chance I came across a small piece of a reel-to-reel tape the other day. It had a segment of a Date With The Duke broadcast with Ellington playing a…
Recording for a TV Broadcast
As said in the previous article, Ellington had been contracted by the French public radio and TV agency ORTF (Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française) to make two programs during his visit…
In the Rain Paris July 2 1970
Ellington started his 1970 concert tour in France on July 29 with a concert in Lille in the north of France with a concert of sacred music. After a one…
John E. Hasse – Cotton Club Revues
John was one of the speakers at Ellington ’91 as he had been at many other Ellington Study Group conferences before. He had discovered many of the printed Cotton Club…
Willis Conover interviews Ellington in 1973
Willis Conover interviewed Duke Ellington on numerous occasions . The last one took place on September 5, 1973 in Ellington’s home in New York City, two and a half month…